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When Burns and Weld told Meese they were quitting, sources say, Meese at first laughed. "Is this a joke?" he asked. "No, Ed, this is no joke," they replied. Asked Meese: "Why are you doing this?" Burns said that Meese had an "appearance problem" that was hurting the department. Both men declared that in good conscience they could not remain...
When someone tipped Meese to his subordinates' decision, he reportedly was angry. "Ed Meese didn't want it to go to the independent counsel," says a department insider. "He made it known to Weld that it shouldn't go anywhere; it should be killed." On May 11, apparently aware that he could not block the probe, Meese pre-empted the impending announcement by publicly inviting McKay to look into his dealings with Wedtech...
...further allegations against Meese surfaced, Burns and Weld became more concerned. At senior staff meetings, they confronted Meese directly, citing newspaper stories and asking, "What about this, Ed? And this?" Meese still shrugged the reports off as "partisan attacks." Both officials had expected McKay to wind up his investigations quickly, but as the probe broadened instead, they decided that someone had to do something. Said a White House source: "They had endured the situation as long as they could, but there appeared to be no end in sight...
NATION: Fed up with Ed Meese' s troubles, six high Justice officials quit their posts...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...